Sentences with phrase «spectrometer detected»

During Cassini's two close Enceladus flybys this spring, its Visual Infrared Mapping Spectrometer detected strong signatures in Saturn's magnetic field around the moon.

A millimeter - scale antenna delivers microwaves to control and flip the electron spin, and a spectrometer detects these changes in spin.

The Glasgow CALLISTO spectrometer detects radio emissions from the Sun between 45 - 80 MHz from 07:15 UT until 15:00 UT on a daily basis.

Not exact matches

The rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument that analyzes the soil and atmosphere around the rover using a mass spectrometer, a gas chromatograph and a tunable laser spectrometer to detect oxygen and carbon isotopes in carbon dioxide and methane samples to see if they are biochemical in origin.

Bryans is leading a team that will point a spectrometer at the sun during the eclipse to detect that light.

The gamma radiation emitted in the decay of its excited states was detected using the gamma ray spectrometer DALI2.

They ran the samples through a type of mass spectrometer that not only detects which isotopes are present but how deep down they are in a surface sample.

DAMPE's data could help to determine whether a surprising pattern in the abundance of high - energy electrons and positrons — detected by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) aboard the International Space Station — comes from dark matter or from astronomical sources such as pulsars, says Pohl, who also works on the AMS.

At Kraken Mare, however, Cassini researchers detected a wavelike feature with both the spacecraft's radar and a mapping spectrometer.

Dawn's spectrometer will be able to detect the presence of organic molecules.

In January, Cassini will make another flyby of Titan that will allow the spectrometer a chance to confirm a radar feature detected in Punga Mare.

The scarps directly expose bright glimpses into vast underground ice previously detected with spectrometers on NASA's Mars Odyssey (MRO) orbiter, with ground - penetrating radar instruments on MRO and on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter, and with observations of fresh impact craters that uncover subsurface ice.

Analysis of these samples by the spacecraft's Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer designed and developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, detected eight different types of metal ions, including sodium, magnesium and iron.

Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen on the Red Planet.

In the original version of the technology, these peptides were detected using an instrument called a mass spectrometer, which analyzes the molecular makeup of a sample.

Wynn - Williams will soon use a mini Raman spectrometer — called a CMaRS — that he can carry into the field in his backpack to detect the fossilized pigments of ancient cyanobacteria.

This finding was made from data collected by the 2001: Mars Odyssey Gamma Ray Spectrometer, or GRS, which is sensitive enough to detect the composition of Mars soil up to one - half meter deep.

They found that the Raman spectrometer could clearly detect the presence of carotenoid molecules in the bacteria.

Then the device drives the water sample into an instrument called a mass spectrometer, which detects thousands of molecules as a molecular fingerprint.

Combe and colleagues used Dawn's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR) to detect probable water ice at Oxo Crater, a small, bright, sloped depression at mid-latitudes on Ceres.

The isotopes in the sample are formed into an ion beam that is detected at the far end of the mass spectrometer, where the number of isotopes are counted.

Researchers at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (CNRS / Université Joseph Fourier / IRD / IFSTTAR / Université de Savoie) and the Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (CNRS / Université Joseph Fourier) used the SWIFTS [1] spectrometer to detect these as yet poorly understood movements.

Elias is excited about the prospect of combining the technique with available portable Raman spectrometers that can be taken to remote places to detect, for instance, dangerous viruses.

The spectrometers will detect these subtleties, identifying every element in the sample — including the lightest components like hydrogen and lithium — for the first time.

Glycolaldehyde was detected by the mass spectrometer on board the Philae lander.

A mass spectrometer will detect every single carbon atom that wafts off the burning sample, says Pillinger, and even whether it is C - 12 or the heavier isotope C - 13.

OCO - 2's spectrometers can detect changes of one or two carbon dioxide molecules out of the 400 — an unprecedented level of precision, and one that scientists think will be adequate to detect changes in natural sources and sinks, once enough measurements have been collected.

The first was reliable nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers that allowed chemists to detect carbon - 13.

It will be the first UV Raman spectrometer on Mars» surface, and its ability to detect organic ring structures will be important in hunting for life.

Cassini's spectrometer recently detected ammonia in jets spewed from Enceladus.

«For high - throughput, untargeted analyses,» says Huhmer, «the Thermo Scientific Q Exactive mass spectrometers, combined with the breadth of chromatographic separations — including LC, [ion chromatography], and GC systems — detect and resolve chemically diverse compounds in the metabolome.»

EYES ON THE INVISIBLE PRIZE Designed to detect cosmic rays, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer cruises above Earth on the International Space Station.

Wobbling is hard to detect because telescopes and spectrometers, no matter how precise, alter subtly with temperature and use.

From its orbit 705 kilometres above Earth's surface, OCO - 2 will peer down into the atmosphere with a spectrometer, monitoring the level of CO2 in the atmosphere by detecting sunlight reflected by molecules of the greenhouse gas.

Larkin and colleagues at UCLA's Infrared Laboratory for Astrophysics developed and built GPI's highly advanced spectrometer, which enabled the instrument to detect the presence of methane on 51 Eridani b.

Spectrometers can be tuned to detect the wavelengths at which scientists know a given element emits and absorbs light; scientists can then determine the element's presence by whether it emits or absorbs light of certain characteristic wavelengths.

The team used a high - tech sorter — an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer — that can detect trace amounts of metals to precisely measure the amounts of lead, aluminum, magnesium, iron and other metals in samples scraped from the pipes.

Eventually, Phoenix's mass spectrometer was able to detect water vapor from a sample of Mars dirt.

For our new experiments we will (hopefully) get even better estimates of sulphuric acid by using a special mass spectrometer that can detect sulphuric acid at very low concentrations.

As the New York Times reported, «The environmental group is also working with Steven C. Wofsy, a professor of atmospheric and environmental science at Harvard, and his colleagues to address the daunting technology challenge of creating an infrared spectrometer that can detect methane plumes on the Earth's surface.»

You won't detect any IR bandwidths that don't show up in the absorption / emission spectrum using an IR spectrometer.

The smartphone spectrometer is as good as a portable laboratory and has a high efficiency in detecting cancer cells.